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Spin-offs score in football bonanza

This content was published on May 25, 2004 Sales of scarves, team shirts, flags and football stickers are expected to go through the roof. Around 3,000 Euro 2004-related items are being distributed under Uefa licence. Classic items such as Panini stickers and albums first appeared in Swiss kiosks in mid-April, leading to frenetic exchanges in school playgrounds across Switzerland. More than 20 million…

Swiss pioneers play important role in EU crypto plans

This content was published on May 25, 2004 The Swiss technology is Europe’s competitive advantage in a race against the US to make quantum cryptography as easy, reliable, and fast as other forms of secure encryption. The Applied Physics group of the University of Geneva, and its spin-off id Quantique, are playing a key role in a $13 million European project to produce…

Lausanne institute lures top scientist

This content was published on May 25, 2004 Marc Parlange, who teaches at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University in the United States, told swissinfo that he hopes to influence the next generation of policy makers. Parlange, an American citizen, is a leader in the field of environmental engineering, especially management and protection of water resources. swissinfo: What persuaded you to make the switch…

Swiss company expands horizons by tagging pets

This content was published on May 24, 2004 It hopes to boost sales when the European Union makes electronic tags for cats and dogs mandatory from the start of July. Microchips can be used to identify dogs and trace their owners. If a dog which has been embedded with a microchip is run over by a car, for example, police can quickly identify…

Government tries to stir up spirit of enterprise

This content was published on May 24, 2004 The aim is to encourage entrepreneurial thinking and innovation among students and boost economic growth. On Monday the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology unveiled details of how it hopes to help more young entrepreneurs set up in business on their own. The programme has a four-year budget of SFr16 million ($12.5 million) for…

Slowing down to see the sites

This content was published on May 24, 2004 Thanks to the huge success of SlowUp since it began in 2000, five additional events are set to go ahead this summer in scenic locations across the country. Tens of thousands of cyclists and skaters flowed non-stop along the roads hugging the shore of Lake Murten, passing through the walled medieval towns of Murten and…

Lufthansa cash call fuels Swiss takeover talk

This content was published on May 24, 2004 Analysts say Lufthansa’s explanation that it needs money to buy new planes is not convincing, and that it is more likely to be building a war chest for acquisitions. Lufthansa announced on Monday that it intended to raise €750 million (SFr1.2 billion) through the issue of new shares to help pay for 15 Airbus A380…

Poor education blamed for poverty gap

This content was published on May 24, 2004 The non-governmental organisation has called for targeted state aid to remedy the situation. “Poverty is a scandal in a country as rich as Switzerland,” said Jürg Krummenacher, head of Caritas. Recent statistics show that up to 850,000 people are affected by poverty, including 220,000 children. The Caritas study, published on Monday, warns that families with…

Former Roche executive leads promising biotech startup

This content was published on May 24, 2004 The size of the deal makes is significant given that the startup firm is only two years old. Investors say that the management team, their rapid progress in taking the innovation to the next stage, and the novel properties of the drugs it is developing could bring huge returns for the venture capital funds. “The…

Price fixing makes market day less of a bargain

This content was published on May 21, 2004 swissinfo paid a visit to one Swiss market and uncovered evidence that some traders are being pressured into raising their prices to match those of rival stallholders. The town of Solothurn lies 30 kilometres north of the Swiss capital, Bern, and plays host to a popular open-air market twice a week throughout the year. One…

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